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Image of Gallery in South Kensington
On display at V&A South Kensington
Ceramics, Room 139, The Curtain Foundation Gallery

Figure

ca. 1770 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Figure of a woman playing a lute in hard-paste porcelain. She is seated on a rock wearing a yellow-lined dull crimson cape thrown back, red-lined, low-crowned blue hat, dress diapered with blue stars and apron delicately flowered in brownish black. Rococo-scrolled base picked out in dull crimson


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Hard-paste porcelain, press-moulded, painted in enamels
Brief description
Figure of a woman playing a lute, hard-paste porcelain painted in enamels, Plymouth Porcelain Factory, ca. 1770
Physical description
Figure of a woman playing a lute in hard-paste porcelain. She is seated on a rock wearing a yellow-lined dull crimson cape thrown back, red-lined, low-crowned blue hat, dress diapered with blue stars and apron delicately flowered in brownish black. Rococo-scrolled base picked out in dull crimson
Dimensions
  • Height: 14.5cm
Height converted from imperial
Credit line
Given by W.A.J. Floersheim Esq.
Collection
Accession number
C.164-1931

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Record createdJune 24, 2009
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